Psalm 80:9
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9 You cleared the ground for it;
it took deep root and filled the land.(A)
Joshua 24:12
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12 I sent swarms of hornets[a] ahead of you that drove out before you the two kings of the Amorites; it was not by your sword or by your bow.(A)
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- 24.12 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Isaiah 27:6
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6 In days to come[a] Jacob shall take root;
Israel shall blossom and put forth shoots
and fill the whole world with fruit.(A)
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- 27.6 Heb Those to come
Jeremiah 12:2
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2 You plant them, and they take root;
they grow and bring forth fruit;
you are near in their mouths
yet far from their hearts.(A)
Isaiah 37:31
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31 The surviving remnant of the house of Judah shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward,(A)
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Psalm 105:44
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44 He gave them the lands of the nations,
and they took possession of the wealth of the peoples,(A)
Nehemiah 9:22-25
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22 And you gave them kingdoms and peoples and allotted to them every corner,[a] so they took possession of the land of King Sihon of Heshbon and the land of King Og of Bashan.(A) 23 You multiplied their descendants like the stars of heaven and brought them into the land that you had told their ancestors to enter and possess.(B) 24 So the descendants went in and possessed the land, and you subdued before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them into their hands, with their kings and the peoples of the land, to do with them as they pleased.(C) 25 And they captured fortress cities and a rich land and took possession of houses filled with all sorts of goods, hewn cisterns, vineyards, olive orchards, and fruit trees in abundance; so they ate and were filled and became fat and delighted themselves in your great goodness.(D)
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- 9.22 Meaning of Heb uncertain
1 Chronicles 27:23-24
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23 David did not count those below twenty years of age, for the Lord had promised to make Israel as numerous as the stars of heaven.(A) 24 Joab son of Zeruiah began to count them but did not finish, yet wrath came upon Israel for this, and the number was not entered into the account of the Annals of King David.(B)
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1 Chronicles 21:5
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5 Joab gave the total count of the people to David. In all Israel there were one million one hundred thousand men who drew the sword, and in Judah four hundred seventy thousand who drew the sword.(A)
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1 Kings 4:25
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25 During Solomon’s lifetime Judah and Israel lived in safety, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, all of them under their vines and fig trees.(A)
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1 Kings 4:20
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Magnificence of Solomon’s Rule
[[20 Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand by the sea; they ate and drank and were happy.(A)
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Joshua 23:13-15
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13 know assuredly that the Lord your God will not continue to drive out these nations before you, but they shall be a snare and a trap for you, a scourge on your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the Lord your God has given you.(A)
14 “And now I am about to go the way of all the earth, and you know in your hearts and souls, all of you, that not one thing has failed of all the good things that the Lord your God promised concerning you; all have come to pass for you; not one of them has failed.(B) 15 But just as all the good things that the Lord your God promised concerning you have been fulfilled for you, so the Lord will bring upon you all the bad things until he has destroyed you from this good land that the Lord your God has given you.(C)
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Exodus 23:28-30
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28 And I will send swarms of hornets[a] in front of you, which shall drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites from before you.(A) 29 I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the wild animals multiply against you.(B) 30 Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased and possess the land.
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- 23.28 Meaning of Heb uncertain
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